LeMarechal

a 5 hours yourney here stands for an adventure that requires a lot of planning and prearrangments. You know, you have to take the car to the service station, to be sure that it will survive such a long trip. You have to bring yourself to the doctor to get all possible vaccinations (cholera, yellow fever etc). The insurance man has to update your life insureance.... Make a will... Get enough food for the trip, not least - enough water etc etc etc... You see, things are a little little bit different here - - :)

Ok that all helps very very much.And it calms me down to see, that there is indeed not that one answer to that question. Calms down because sometimes I thoght "I´m too stupid to look for" Some of these thoughts you wrote above came to me, but to hear that from other and much more experienced people makes me more confident on my own way. The last week I made very much tongs. And for this, I found it well working with that constant air supply. But if I do some tricky and frickling things, like trying out something new, constant air makes now sense I thoght. I´m happy to see that I wasn´t too wrong with that. One thing I have to work on, by stopping the airblast or reducing the airflow, is to remain myself cool while the fire heats up again (hope this pun works ) Meaning that I often become very impatient during waiting for the forge reheating. That leads me to overdo the air supply, resulting in to much scale, to much heat and so on... @Thomas I´m from Hamburg... completely other direction Far far away

Hi Glenn and Kevin, thank you very much for your welcome. I will take some photos next time to post it here Glenn, thank you also for this well done explanation, I completely agree with you. While horseshoeing is mostly done by taping the horseshoe slightly with the hammer to make it suitable for the hoof, moving the metal during a blacksmithing process is something completely different

Hello Everyone, this is surely on of the absolute basically questions. And you can trust me, I´ve tried to red all about coal forges hat I was possible to find out there. But for this single question I couldn´t find an answer. Let´s imagin that the fire in forge is started well. My forge has an electrical blower and the firepot gots a throttle to adjust the airflow - the breath of the fire No the question: If I heated up my stock to working temperature and move it to the anvil to work on this piece, what should I do with the airstream throttle while I´m working on the anvil? Should I close it in meaning cut of the airblast and until I put the stock back in the fire, and then open the throttel again? Should I close it only a little bit until I´m back from the anvil? Or should I adjust the throttle to a point of balance (between the airintake and the temperature I want to have in my fire) and after that adjustment, the thottle should stay at this point the whole time I´m smithing? You see it is realy a beginners question, but it is one that unsettles me since years ... Are there any rules or recommdations that anyone like to post here? Thanks Sascha PS.: Don´t wonder if my English is awkward... this old german english

Just new here on IFI I like to introduce myself in short. At first : living in Germany I hope that my English is not to bad I´m farrier since 20 years and since working with horses I always was interested in real blacksmithing. After the last years I built my shop little by little, making more and more tools etc. All this with help from tips I read here on this great forum. Greetings from Germany Sascha